Riddle me this Batman - Fox and Usama

[MichIndy]

Why is the world does Fox News continue to call Osama Bin Laden - USAMA Bin Laden ????

Can someone give me a LOGICAL explanation for this?

 

[theHawk]

Its just a variant on how you can spell the original Arabic name in English. It's technically more accurate.

 

[midcan5]

"There is no universally accepted standard in the West for transliterating Arabic words and Arabic names into English, so Osama bin Laden's name is spelled in many different ways. The version translation most often used by English-language mass media is Osama bin Laden. Most American government agencies, including the FBI and CIA, use either "Usama bin Laden" or "Usama bin Ladin", both of which are often abbreviated to UBL. Less common renderings include "Ussamah Bin Ladin" and "Oussama Ben Laden" (French-language mass media). The last two words of the name can also be found as "Binladen" or (as used by his family in the West) "Binladin". The spelling with "o" and "e" comes from a Persian-influenced pronunciation used in Afghanistan where he lived for a long time." Osama bin Laden - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[edthecynic]

Why is the world does Fox News continue to call Osama Bin Laden - USAMA Bin Laden ????

Can someone give me a LOGICAL explanation for this?

Same reason Stuttering LimpTard calls Obama - Ubama!

Usama, Ubama Target Pakistan
September 20, 2007

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT
RUSH: Usama Bin Laden! Another tape saying he's gonna invade Pakistan and declare war in Pakistan on Musharraf, which, ladies and gentlemen, puts him on the same page with a Democrat presidential candidate. That would be Barack Ubama. Let's go back to August 1st. Ubama gave a speech on counterterrorism, and here's portion of what he said.

UBAMA: If we have actionable intelligence about high-value terrorist targets, and President Musharraf will not act, we will.

November 12, 2007
RUSH: Ahhhhhh. Okay, now, that sounds like a pretty fiery speech to me, yet it was Barack Ubama who was credited for the fiery speech. But you gotta hear this. This is also Saturday night in Iowa, in Des Moines, the 2007 Jefferson-Jackson Dinner. Here is Nancy Pelosi's introduction of -- dadelut dadelut dadelut dadelut -- Barack Ubama. Queen Bee Syndrome, anyone?

 

[MichIndy]

Yet a look through their archives shows that they apparently wanted the more technically more accurate usage to apply only at the most dramatic time rather than the last 10 years of coverage.
Did the Arabic consultants over at Fox finally get their memo through that they have been forwarding for years or is Fox just being Dick-ish for the sake of being Dick-ish when the spotlight is the brightest ??

Kinda like the headlines about HOMICIDE bombers who strapped explosives to their chests and went into markets and buses and churches and taxi stands and train stations that were listed as SUICIDE bombings by everyone else except for the brainiacs over at Fox.

AWESOME

 

[konradv]

Why is the world does Fox News continue to call Osama Bin Laden - USAMA Bin Laden ????

Can someone give me a LOGICAL explanation for this?

Ever notice how many ways there are to spell Khadafy, Qaddaffi, Kadaffi, Qadafy, etc., etc., etc.? It's a different alphabet, so spelling is more convention than correctness.

 

[Tank]

Why is the world does Fox News continue to call Osama Bin Laden - USAMA Bin Laden ????

Can someone give me a LOGICAL explanation for this?

They don't want you to confuse it with Obama

 

[Two Thumbs]

ever seen the names;
gaddafi
qaddafi
kaddafi?

They are all the same person.

Not that this has anything to do with anything but partisan hackery.

no, of course not, there isn't one thing more important going on.

 

[Two Thumbs]

Why is the world does Fox News continue to call Osama Bin Laden - USAMA Bin Laden ????

Can someone give me a LOGICAL explanation for this?

Ever notice how many ways there are to spell Khadafy, Qaddaffi, Kadaffi, Qadafy, etc., etc., etc.? It's a different alphabet, so spelling is more convention than correctness.

Beat me to it rep on the way.




ya jackass.

 

[MichIndy]

Q-Qh-Qu-Kh-K-aD-Da-F-F-I has been screwed up for decades. Osama has not and now wondering why Fox decided to go down that road now. Seeing as they were the only ones out there last night deciding to wallpaper their channel with what most people would consider the improper spelling of the name of the world's most notorious terrorist. Seems to add to the pin-headed-ness that they so willingly do not seem to want to seem to alter or fix.

 

[xsited1]

Why is the world does Fox News continue to call Osama Bin Laden - USAMA Bin Laden ????

Can someone give me a LOGICAL explanation for this?

They do that to piss you off. Looks like it worked.

 

[Two Thumbs]

Q-Qh-Qu-Kh-K-aD-Da-F-F-I has been screwed up for decades. Osama has not and now wondering why Fox decided to go down that road now. Seeing as they were the only ones out there last night deciding to wallpaper their channel with what most people would consider the improper spelling of the name of the world's most notorious terrorist. Seems to add to the pin-headed-ness that they so willingly do not seem to want to seem to alter or fix.

Any chance they are tyring to get people to stop comparing osama to obama?

no of course not, they would never try anything positive.

It's all an evil plot to overthrow obama!!!!!!

 

[sinister59]

Why is the world does Fox News continue to call Osama Bin Laden - USAMA Bin Laden ????

Can someone give me a LOGICAL explanation for this?

its called being a bigot , its called hate , its call divisiveness ,

 

[Two Thumbs]

WOW!!

There are a LOT of fucking MORONS on today!!

 

[Robert]

Are you worried he's gong to be insulted over the spelling?

 

[M14 Shooter]

Why is the world does Fox News continue to call Osama Bin Laden - USAMA Bin Laden ????

Can someone give me a LOGICAL explanation for this?

its called being a bigot , its called hate , its call divisiveness ,

It's called you self-sodomizing your credibility as a sentient being.

 

[Wiseacre]

A better question: who gives a rat's ass how you spell his name as long as the SOB is dead?

 

[California Girl]

We need a 'who gives a fuck' forum.

 

[waltky]

Granny says she'll take it if nobody claims it...

Who gets bin Laden's $25 million bounty?
May 2, 2011 -- The photograph of Osama bin Laden on the FBI's Most Wanted Terrorists list has a new caption: Deceased. But it was unclear Monday how much, if any, of the up to $25 million in reward money offered on the terrorist leader has been granted.

The man behind the worst terrorist attack in U.S. history was killed Sunday by American forces in Pakistan, in what President Barack Obama called "the most significant achievement to date in our nation's effort to defeat al Qaeda." In the 10 years since the 9/11 attacks, the CIA, the FBI and other intelligence agencies have worked to locate bin Laden, who was found living in a compound outside of Islamabad. The use of reward money has become an important asset in the government's fight against global terrorism.

The Rewards for Justice program, run by the U.S. State Department's Bureau of Diplomatic Security, has paid out more than $100 million to over 60 people since it was created in 1984. The program grants money to people who provided "actionable information that put terrorists behind bars or prevented acts of international terrorism worldwide," according to a statement on its website. "The department does not generally discuss nominations for awards," said Harry Edwards, a spokesman for the State Department. The offer, he added, is for a maximum of $25 million. "If it were paid, it could be less."

It is possible that no reward money will be granted. According to Obama administration officials, unidentified detainees provided a key piece of information that helped investigators locate bin Laden. But rewards have been granted for the capture of other international terrorists, including Ramzi Yousef, who was convicted in the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center. The largest reward ever paid under the program was $30 million to one person who provided information on Uday and Qusay Hussein, the sons of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. In 2003, after an intense firefight with U.S. forces, both brothers were killed.

The government is currently offering up to $25 million for information on Ayman Al-Zawahiri, al Qaeda's second-in-command, and an heir apparent to bin Laden. The average reward offered for the 30 other terrorists on the most wanted list is $5 million. In 2008, the maximum reward was raised to $50 million for any one target, but Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has not authorized that amount, according to Edwards. For safety reasons, the State Department generally does not disclose details about the recipients of rewards. But officials may announce the amount rewarded in certain high-profile cases.

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Bin Laden death sends Internet traffic soaring
May 2, 2011 -- As news of Osama bin Laden's death made its way across the globe Sunday night, Internet traffic exploded.

Twitter: At the news event's peak, Twitter said that users were sending off 5,106 tweets per second. That makes the volume of tweets surrounding the event the second-highest in Twitter's history. It also represented the highest sustained rate of tweets per second in the company's history -- from 10:45 p.m. ET on Sunday through 2:20 a.m. on Monday, there was an average of 3,000 Tweets per second

The 5,106-peak tweet-per-second peak was still far short of the 6,939 tweets per second record set when Japan brought in the 2011 new year. Twitter recently has played an increasingly important role as a disseminator of breaking news, and the bin Laden story was another prime example.

Just before White House officials told the news media that bin Laden had been killed, Keith Urbahn, former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld's chief of staff, spread the word via Twitter. "So I'm told by a reputable person they have killed Osama Bin Laden. Hot damn." Urbahn later said he was tipped off by a well-connected network TV news producer. Other news agencies quickly followed with tweets, and the microblogging site soon exploded with information about the event.

Urbahn was actually not the first to break the news. A Pakistani IT consultant named Sohaib Athar with the Twitter handle ReallyVirtual, who lives in the city of Abbottabad where bin Laden was killed, unwittingly live-tweeted the event as it was happening. "A huge window shaking bang here in Abbottabad ... I hope its not the start of something nasty" Athar tweeted at about 5:00 p.m. ET on Sunday.

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[R.D.]

its called being a bigot , its called hate , its call divisiveness ,

Yeah, them effin' feds too...